The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

We do not exist for ourselves.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.